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You have a landmark building that looks impressive and has become something of an icon. It is also a hotel with far too many rooms requiring queueing for almost everything and a galaxy of ordinary tourists gazing at you as they watch you swimming in the infinity pool 56-odd floors up. You pay little attention to the floods of complaints about the hotel's problems. It's doing it's job. It's putting Singapore on some map or other. But it still remains only #27 on Tripadvisor's list of top Singapore hotels, with several four star hotels above it. And fake 5-star reviews are still to be found on the site! Plus the nightly rate is around 100% more than other similar 5-star hotels. Forget it is you are thinking of booking.Ā So what has the Singapore government decided to do with its Marina Bay Sand Hotel? Spend $8 billion to expand and renovate it. Well, hold on the renovation bit. Because the $8 billion is going to be spent on an extension. Not a fourth linked tower, but a totally new 55-storey tower all on its own which broke ground last Tuesday - and only a short distance from the original.Ā Photos: Satdie Architects The new tower adds 570 more suites, presumably for all the Chinese and other Asians who come to gamble at the original's casino, which had planned to forbid Singaporens entry!Ā Now SIgaporeans can purchase a daily pass for S$150 (US$117) or an annual pass for S$3,000 (US$2,336). Non-Singaporeans presumably enter for free. Not surprisingly, a lot of Singaporeans dislike the design of the new tower. "It sticks out like a sore thumb" is a common view whereas others compare it to a giant dehumidifier. The 87-year old Israeli architecht disagrees. "When itās all said and done, people will feel itās always been there,ā Safdie argued. āAnd they will love it as much as they love this building, if not more, because I think the sum total of the two together is greater than the individual parts.āĀ Hmmm! Time will no doubt tell. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/16/style/singapore-marina-bay-sands-expansion -
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no doubt fact that manager Arthur was Tawan veteran for many years helps to treat guys decently.
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That's all absolutely correct but unfortunately in real life sometimes what was approved in principle and in advance, when comes to it not necessarily will work as scripted. We agreed that during day each of us has free hand to do whatever and that I may bring somebody and requested that at this time room will be vacated,Ā but when it come to it in reality it created some , how to say it ? uneasiness. From childhood I rememberĀ conversation my parents had with their lifelong friends about going together for vacation, each couple in own car but they were supposed to start at my parents place at such and such time. And my father knowing they are not exactly famous for being on time disclaimed " if you won'tĀ be here at 7 am, we are going and you will chase us on theĀ Ā road somewhere ". It turned that they were only 5Ā minutes lateĀ so my parents were on the road already when they arrived . It took weeksĀ to heal perceived offense and we are talking about lifelong friends, not occasional hook up.Ā
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Apparently it was the Captain, not the co-pilot who switched off the fuel. I guess that goes into explaining the 10-second delay. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/air-india-cockpit-recording-suggests-captain-cut-fuel-engines-before-crash-2025-07-18/ "A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month supports the view that the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane's engines, said a source briefed on U.S. officials' early assessment of evidence. The first officer was at the controls of the Boeing 787, and asked the captain why he moved the fuel switches into a position that starved the engines of fuel and requested that he restore the fuel flow, the source told Reuters on condition of anonymity because the matter remains under investigation...". It's hard to imagine anyone could be such an asshole, but it looks as though that's what happened.
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